Science

2026/08/11 New contactless method reveals how mirror-image materials respond differently to light
2026/08/11 More than a decade of observation in Seattle suburbs shows where sensitive bird species won’t go
2026/08/11 Early farmers’ larger grains may reflect rainfall, not genetic selection
2026/08/11 Solar eclipse sparks scramble for protective glasses across Europe
2026/08/11 CRISPR-armed phages help treat severe superbug infection | New Scientist
2026/08/10 The impact of recent super El Niños on sea level rise
2026/08/10 When fever isn’t the answer: Infected tadpoles cool themselves to fight viruses
2026/08/10 AI cyclone forecasts could add 30 hours of warning time
2026/08/10 Vitamin B12 corrects developmental defects in Verheij syndrome worm model
2026/08/10 Using salt to drive drug-carrying particles deeper into difficult-to-treat biofilms
2026/08/10 New survey: Parents and educators say the rise of AI requires students to develop stronger data skills
2026/08/10 The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism | New Scientist
2026/08/10 New species of mountain horned dragon identified in Thailand’s high-altitude forests
2026/08/09 Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier
2026/08/09 The asteroid that may be three worlds
2026/08/09 Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds
2026/08/08 Dodo birds more clever than we thought
2026/08/08 New fuel cell breakthrough could help power energy-hungry data centers
2026/08/08 Reduced gravity pushes people toward simpler movement patterns, experiments suggest
2026/08/07 Uranus’s unusual rotation makes its bow shock expand and contract each day
2026/08/07 Physicists watch a material’s electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases
2026/08/07 High-coverage ancient genomes reveal prehistoric population histories of Japan
2026/08/07 ‘Plasma gun’ technology could transform space laundry and sanitation for future missions
2026/08/07 One snail, five slimes: Collagen and calcium reshape mucus for different jobs
2026/08/07 From mountain peaks to microclimates, new maps bring satellite big data down to Earth
2026/08/07 Drought and heat push Europe’s power grid to breaking point | New Scientist
2026/08/06 Checking out AI: University library puts emerging technology to the test
2026/08/06 Utah’s historic fire season of 2026
2026/08/06 JWST study suggests a handful of ’leaky’ galaxies reionized the early universe
2026/08/05 Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from and imagining new ones
2026/08/04 East Africa’s iconic snow peaks will soon disappear for good. What will be lost when they melt?
2026/08/04 Family ties shape social lives of bull sharks
2026/08/04 New catalyst design selectively suppresses competing hydrogen reaction in ammonia synthesis
2026/08/04 Cat training program helps children with developmental disabilities—and cats too
2026/08/04 Incentives to sleep boost college students’ grades, new study finds
2026/08/04 Molecular orbitals imaged in 3D, opening path to femtosecond videos
2026/08/04 Perennial bioenergy grasses begin rebuilding Midwest soil carbon lost to maize
2026/08/04 After the Palisades and Eaton fires, research offers new answers for communities as they rebuild
2026/08/04 First measurement of antineutrinos from spent nuclear fuel confirms emissions persist after reactor shutdown
2026/08/03 You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer
2026/08/03 OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems | New Scientist
2026/08/03 Wildfires: Why disposable BBQs are being banned from some parks and beaches
2026/08/03 Why sitting under a parasol is barely cooler than being in the sun | New Scientist
2026/08/03 Pluto’s hazy atmosphere may be collapsing as it moves farther from the sun
2026/08/03 What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?
2026/08/03 Rideshare launches boost regional GDP and flexible jobs, study finds
2026/08/02 Mom or not, caring for babies changes the brain
2026/08/01 How molecular tethers and asynchronous replication drive parasite proliferation
2026/08/01 A rollercoaster of weather extremes: Drought and heat waves are creating UK’s climate whiplash
2026/07/31 Exposing the hidden toll of litigation
2026/07/31 Math shows why your vote may not count the way you think it does
2026/07/31 New Scientist Book Club: How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott’s new film | New Scientist
2026/07/30 Scientists advance space agriculture for future moon and Mars missions
2026/07/30 Neutron star collisions may forge gold more slowly than expected
2026/07/30 Tracking satellites and space debris using radio antennae
2026/07/30 Woolly mammoths butchered by humans were mostly female | New Scientist
2026/07/30 Hiroshima blast debris reveals a previously unknown alloy
2026/07/30 Does misinformation on Facebook and Instagram change what you believe?
2026/07/30 May, June heat waves caused 2,877 extra deaths in England: govt
2026/07/30 This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history
2026/07/30 Mapping endangered habitats with the help of citizen scientists and satellite data
2026/07/30 Two Arctic charr populations evolved in less than a century, study finds
2026/07/30 First dogs in the UK treated with new bee and wasp venom immunotherapy
2026/07/29 Why the hepatitis E virus cannot infect mice
2026/07/28 International team evaluates anoxic marine basins as potential sites for carbon sequestration
2026/07/28 Tropical insects may be running out of room as temperatures rise
2026/07/28 Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self‑sustaining disaster that will keep coming back
2026/07/28 California drought may have pushed parts of the Sacramento Valley aquifer toward permanent collapse
2026/07/28 The future of the UK’s renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut
2026/07/28 Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Malta relied on repeated sea crossings, study suggests
2026/07/28 Neuroscientists reveal limits of human compassion for global crises
2026/07/27 Prolonged stretching reorganizes tissue scaffolds and uncages cell nuclei
2026/07/27 California wildfire damage risk map uses factors most closely linked to severe property losses
2026/07/27 Membrane nanostructures reshape in water, revealing route to better ion transport
2026/07/27 Purple corn offers a stable natural alternative to artificial food dyes
2026/07/27 Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season, study finds
2026/07/27 Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heat wave hits California
2026/07/27 France, Spain battle ‘monster’ wildfires with more heat on the way
2026/07/25 Study explores rare atom-containing natural products and their biomedical potential
2026/07/24 Colorado prepares for screwworms, as the pest that was eradicated in 1966 returns to the US
2026/07/24 Combining AI protein design with laboratory evolution improves engineered enzymes
2026/07/24 How does parent‑child interaction therapy work? And who can use it?
2026/07/24 A simple idea to bring clean drinking water to U.S. homes at a lower cost
2026/07/23 How insect submariners survive the depths without imploding
2026/07/23 Hundreds hospitalized in Japan heat wave ‘disaster’
2026/07/23 Environmental bacteria ferry genes that boost antibiotic resistance over 10,000-fold
2026/07/23 Student research shows positive outcomes from summer research program
2026/07/22 Q&A: Listening with light—an innovative new technology for studying the seafloor
2026/07/22 Molecular model for semiconductor surfaces developed
2026/07/22 Spread of invasive malaria mosquito from Asia to Africa traced in new genomic study
2026/07/22 New genetic approaches raise hopes for restoring the American chestnut to its former glory
2026/07/22 Left or right? Moths use a preferred side to inspect flowers for nectar
2026/07/21 How sea anemone cells reform into an organism
2026/07/21 Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less formidable
2026/07/21 Cosmic gymnastics: How the Milky Way once underwent a dramatic flip
2026/07/21 Aligned graphite particles unlock stable levitation above magnets, study finds
2026/07/21 Indigenous knowledge key to building healthier and more sustainable food systems
2026/07/21 New quantum gravity theory links entropy, dark energy, and life
2026/07/20 Greater nutrient variety can counterintuitively shrink microbial diversity, experiments reveal
2026/07/20 Research reveals how human bias shapes social media feeds
2026/07/20 Microplastic tire pollution found in Brisbane balcony dust
2026/07/16 Next-generation Alzheimer’s drug reduces risk of serious brain bleeds | New Scientist
2026/07/16 Statistical method broadens forecasts by modeling uncertainty beyond average outcomes
2026/07/16 South Africa’s rooibos heads to space
2026/07/16 Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day
2026/07/16 What animals do before going to war
2026/07/16 A new record holder for the world’s oldest amber discovered in China
2026/07/16 Webb telescope discovers hidden planet in famous star system
2026/07/15 How school choice may sustain income segregation in US classrooms
2026/07/15 T. rex babies were born ready to run and feed themselves
2026/07/14 Hard but lightweight ‘bio-metal’ material discovered in sea worm jaws | New Scientist
2026/07/14 Six years of drought reshape soil microbiomes in tallgrass prairie, study finds
2026/07/12 Machine learning calibration of biosensors for microcystin toxin monitoring in freshwater
2026/07/12 The public isn’t bored with economists, management scholars and sociologists but engaging people has conditions
2026/07/12 Tiny magnetic ‘flowers’ could expand how researchers image spintronic materials under stronger fields
2026/07/12 Neil the seal is more than a viral animal. He’s become a global folk hero
2026/07/12 Scientists decipher how a psychedelic substance is created, then engineer a plant to produce several at once
2026/07/12 Self‑building molecular rings bring next‑generation drug delivery and smart materials closer
2026/07/11 Secure glass containers for storing chemical waste through laser welding
2026/07/11 Synthetic rotation brings black hole energy theory into lab, amplifying waves
2026/07/11 The Vikings were more than bearded marauders, but Scandinavia’s national museums continue to project that image
2026/07/11 A robot that reads bacteria by touch, without staining or chemical labels
2026/07/11 New platform creates digital map for marine biobanks
2026/07/10 New sensors capture warning signs before fish deaths in Lake Victoria
2026/07/10 Tiny mountain lakes pose big, overlooked flood risks, new study warns
2026/07/09 Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock
2026/07/09 Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten after 200 years | New Scientist
2026/07/09 Genetic crossovers defy chromosome-length model in male and female mice
2026/07/09 Falling water levels trigger a surge in methane emissions from Mediterranean reservoirs
2026/07/09 AI can predict how you’ll respond to a survey—but that’s not the same as understanding you
2026/07/09 Scientists finally solved a 150-year-old gallium mystery
2026/07/08 Should a chatbot manage your bank account? Probably not, according to analysis
2026/07/08 Satellites are transforming biodiversity monitoring for global nature targets, but major gaps remain
2026/07/08 Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteries
2026/07/08 Slowing Atlantic current could fuel stronger California atmospheric rivers by century’s end
2026/07/08 South African fynbos soil delivers a new species of soil bacterium
2026/07/08 Primordial mini-moons may explain meteorite composition
2026/07/08 Making the ‘invisible’ visible: How high-speed movies could change the way scientists study disease
2026/07/08 Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport
2026/07/08 Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen our search for truth? | New Scientist
2026/07/08 Ocean acidification may be shrinking the brains of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates
2026/07/08 Another success for Hayabusa 2 as it completes a flyby of asteroid Torifune
2026/07/08 JWST’s ‘overmassive’ early black holes may not be so massive after all
2026/07/08 Robin study suggests fleeing isn’t necessarily wildlife’s first response to wildfire smoke
2026/07/07 Fungi communicate with one another in the presence of metal pollution in forests
2026/07/07 Isotope probing shows soil is packed with dormant viruses lying in wait
2026/07/07 AI faces trusted more than faces of real people, warn researchers
2026/07/07 Wolves around the world have evolved different skull shapes—humans are also shaping their evolution
2026/07/07 Homegrown catnip lotion proves to be an effective mosquito repellent in rural Uganda
2026/07/07 Metallic rutile oxides break the rules of cooling
2026/07/07 New Horizons watches the solar wind as it slows down
2026/07/07 Citizen science could grow beyond data collection under 10 proposed recommendations
2026/07/07 Isotopic signatures link hot spring magmatic water to the subducting Pacific Plate
2026/07/07 Salt batteries are about to shake up EVs and grid storage | New Scientist
2026/07/07 EV-SELEX speeds GPCR drug discovery by capturing receptor-bound DNA aptamers
2026/07/07 Bulk ferromagnetic quasicrystals emerge without rapid quenching, unlocking stable magnetic studies
2026/07/06 Discrepancies in AI lunar crater catalogs discovered
2026/07/06 5 things to know about sunscreen, according to a skin cancer expert | New Scientist
2026/07/06 A last dance before death: Binary stars and the origins of interacting supernovae
2026/07/04 New optical centrifuge unlocks the secrets of frictionless superfluids
2026/07/04 New research reveals the hidden pollution left behind by fireworks
2026/07/03 ‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons | New Scientist
2026/07/03 A popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather
2026/07/01 The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026 | New Scientist
2026/07/01 Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible | New Scientist
2026/07/01 Simple water trick slashes diesel engine pollution by over 60%
2026/07/01 The Milky Way’s weird gamma-ray glow may be dark matter after all
2026/06/28 Hawaii is turning ocean plastic and fishing nets into roads
2026/06/28 Yellowstone’s supervolcano may be fueled by something unexpected
2026/06/28 A rare supernova peeled back a star’s layers and revealed a hidden secret
2026/06/27 Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy
2026/06/06 A tiny atomic shift gives scientists powerful control over metals
2026/06/06 NASA just proved spacecraft can switch between multiple satellite networks
2026/06/05 Hidden supermassive black hole pairs may finally have a visible signal
2026/06/05 Magnetic fields may be the secret behind binary star formation
2026/06/05 Scientists discover a hidden quantum world inside cobalt
2026/06/04 After 20 years, scientists finally shrink a powerful laser onto a chip
2026/06/04 Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries
2026/06/04 NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
2026/06/03 CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality | New Scientist
2026/06/03 Venus will disappear behind the Moon in a rare June sky event
2026/06/03 Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout
2026/06/03 New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence